2018
02
Oct
Defending Cultural Landscapes, Latest Edition
NPR’s Science Friday Features Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments
The reduction opened up nearly 2 million acres of previously protected federal land to fossil fuel and mineral exploitation, angering Native Americans, for whom the land is historically and spiritually signi...
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2018
07
Aug
Identity Politics, Past and Present
Aaron Wright, Preservation Archaeologist
(August 7, 2018)—Social identity has emerged as a field of concerted archaeological inquiry in the Southwest and beyond. At Archaeology Southwest, we’ve been thinking a lot about how people create and express social identities at multiple scales, and...
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2018
22
Mar
Plant and Animal Use in the Mimbres
Karen Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist
(March 22, 2018)—One thing I enjoy about working at Archaeology Southwest is the opportunities we have to share new research beyond the specialized journals where a lot of our work gets published. In that spirit, I’m happy to share an update on ...
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2017
16
Jul
Diné and Pueblo Youth Join to Fight Fracking of the Chaco Landscape
Diné and Pueblo Youth Join to Fight Fracking of the Chaco Landscape
“Save the sacredness of our land and our water and our air and our soil. With fracking, all of those components in life are at a threat,” Antonio said. The group recently held a “consent dinner” for the communities of Tor...
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2016
06
Dec
The Fornholt Retrospective: An Introduction
Katherine Dungan, Preservation Archaeologist
(December 6, 2016)—The archaeological site that we call Fornholt sits on a ridge overlooking the grassy, well-watered valley that surrounds Mule Creek, in southwestern New Mexico. Today, the most visible parts of the site are the two architectural moun...
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2016
14
Nov
The Power of Symbols
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist
(November 14, 2016)—As an anthropologist, I think about the power of symbols, and their power to unite or divide.
When I taught traditional classroom anthropology courses, this was one of the key concepts we discussed. As a young teaching assis...
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2015
31
Aug
Wish Granted
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist
My colleague Mike Diehl and I recently heard the good news that we’ve received a National Science Foundation grant (BCS-1524079). When I told my family about it at dinner that night, my youngest daughter asked what a “grant” was. I told h...
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2015
24
Aug
Woodrow Ruin Revealed
Jakob Sedig, University of Colorado, Boulder
(August 24, 2015)—For the past four years, I have been conducting research at Woodrow Ruin, a large, multicomponent site on the upper Gila River. (“Multicomponent” means that the site bears evidence of people being there in more than one distinct c...
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2015
16
Aug
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Announces the Recipients of This Year's Byron Cummings and Victor Stoner Awards
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Announces the Recipients of This Year's Byron Cummings and Victor Stoner Awards
Archaeology Southwest joins in celebrating the memory of James Ayers, who was posthumously awarded the Byron Cummings Award, and we celebrate the Byron Cummings Award present...
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2015
10
Jul
Connecting the Past to the Present
Anna Porter, State University of New York at Buffalo
The first thing that comes to mind when you think about archaeology is not usually involvement in modern society. Archaeologists study things that happened thousands of years ago—how could this be relevant to today? What I learned at this field...
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2014
18
May
DNA from Clovis-Era Skeleton Found in Mexico Confirms Modern Native American Ancestry
DNA from Clovis-Era Skeleton Found in Mexico Confirms Modern Native American Ancestry
An international team of scientists have uncovered the most genetically complete human skeleton from the New World yet, dating back more than 12,000 years. The skeleton, discovered in an underwater cave system in t...
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2014
09
Mar
Southwestern Archaeology Provides Insights on Disaster Recovery
Southwestern Archaeology Provides Insights on Disaster Recovery
Following a natural disaster, vulnerability to food shortage appears to depend more on a group's ability to migrate and its positive relationships with other groups than on resource factors. That's according to a research team led by A...
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